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Health Assessment Lab Chapter 1

This chapter discusses the nurse's role in health assessment. It provides a test to match nursing terms with their descriptions and multiple choice questions about nursing assessment. The test covers topics like nursing diagnoses, subjective and objective data, and the scope of nursing assessment. The chapter also includes learning activities for students, such as assessing a partner's diet and comparing medical and nursing assessments. It discusses how technology may change nursing assessment in the future.

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Health Assessment Lab Chapter 1

This chapter discusses the nurse's role in health assessment. It provides a test to match nursing terms with their descriptions and multiple choice questions about nursing assessment. The test covers topics like nursing diagnoses, subjective and objective data, and the scope of nursing assessment. The chapter also includes learning activities for students, such as assessing a partner's diet and comparing medical and nursing assessments. It discusses how technology may change nursing assessment in the future.

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CALAMBA DOCTORS’ COLLEGE

Virborough Subdivision, Parian, Calamba City, Laguna


COLLEGE OF NURSING
Chapter 1 - Nurse’s Role in Health Assessment

Chapter Test
Matching Type
Match the term with the correct descriptions
Term Descriptions
_______ 1. Nursing Assessment A. Developing a plan of nursing care and outcomes criteria

_______ 2. Nursing diagnosis phase B. Carrying out the plan of care

_______ 3. Planning C. Sensation or symptoms that can be verified only by the client (e.g. pain)

_______ 4. Implementation D. Problem that requires the attention or assistance of other health care
professional
_______ 5. Evaluation E. Assessing whether outcome criteria have been meet and revising the plan of
care if necessary.
_______ 6. Nursing diagnosis F. Collecting subjective and objective data

_______ 7. Subjective data G. Clinical judgment about individual, family or community responses to actual
and potential health problem and life processes
_______ 8. Objective data H. Physiologic complications that nurse monitor to detect the onset or changes
in status
_______ 9. Collaborative problem I. Analysis of subjective and objective data to make a professional nursing
judgment
_______ 10. Referral problem J. Finding directly observed or indirectly observe through measurement (e.g.
body temperature)

Multiple choice questions


_______ 1. A medical examination differs from a comprehensive nursing examination in the medical examination
focuses primarily in the client.
A. Physiologic status
B. Holistic wellness status
C. Development history
D. Level of functioning
________ 2. The result of nursing assessment
A. Prescription of treatment
B. Documentation of need for referral
C. Client’s physiologic status
D. Formulation of nursing diagnosis
________ 3. Although the assessment phase of the nursing process precede the other phases
A. Continuous
B. Completed on admission
C. Linear
D. Performed only by a nurse
_________ 4. When a child first enter the hospital for an elective surgical procedure, the nurse should perform an
assessment termed
A. Entry
B. Exploratory
C. Focused
D. Comprehensive
_________ 5. An assessment of a client who already has a complete recorded data base to the system and return to the
health care agency with specific health concern is referred as:
A. Ongoing or partial assessment
B. Focused or problem oriented assessment
C. Emergency assessment
D. Initial comprehensive assessment
_________ 6. To prepare the assessment of a client visiting a neighborhood health care clinic, the nurse should first
A. Discuss a client symptom with other team members
B. Plan for potential laboratory procedure
C. Review the client health care record
D. Determine potential health care resources
_________ 7. The nurse is preparing to meet the client in the clinic for the first time. After reviewing the client record
the nurse should first
A. Analyze data that have already been collected
B. Review any past collaborative problem
C. Avoid premature judgment about the client
D. Consult with the client’s family member
_________ 8. Before beginning a comprehensive health assessment of an adult client, the nurse should explain to the
client that the purposes of assessment is to
A. Arrive at conclusions about client’s health
B. Document any physical symptoms the client may have
C. Contribute to the medical diagnosis
D. Validate the data collected
________ 9. To arrive at nursing diagnosis or a collaborative problem, the nurse goes through the step of analysis of
data. After proposing nursing diagnosis the nurse should next
A. Cluster the data collected
B. Draw inferences and identify problem
C. Document conclusion
D. Check for the presence of defining characteristics
_________ 10. The depth and the scope of nursing assessment had expanded significantly over the past several decades
primarily because of.
A. The growing elderly population with chronic illness
B. Rapid advance in biomedical knowledge and technology
C. An increase in the number of baccalaureate program in nursing
D. An increase in the number of practitioners
Chapter 1
Learning activities
1. Assess your laboratory partner’s dietary intake for yesterday and his or her satisfaction with the intake

2. Share with your lab partner the last time you went to physician, Describe your reason for seeing the physician. What
examination did the physician perform? What conclusions were made? Discuss how the focus of a nursing
assessment would differ from the physician assessment. Discuss how conclusions would differ.

3. Write down everything you observe about your laboratory partner without asking them by any question. Now make a
judgment based on the observation and validate the observations with your partner by asking them a questions for
example “ You look tired today” Do you feel tired? “Describe to me your pattern of sleeping and resting”

4. Role play how Florence Nightingale would have performed a nursing assessment in her era. Then role play how a
nurse today would approach that assessment from a different perspective (e.g. type of equipment use, type of
question asked. Next brain storm with your lab partner how a nursing assessment might change in the future-20
years from now.

Critical Thinking
1. Discuss way in which expanding technology will change the future role of the nurse in health assessment
2. Compare and contrast a nursing assessment with medical assessment.

Answer
1. f
2. i
3. a
4. h
5. e
6. 9
7- c
8. j
9. h
10. d

1. a. physioloSic status.
2. d. formulation of nursing diagnoses.
3. a. continuolrs-
4. d. comprehensive.
5. b. focused or problem-odented assessment.
6. c. review the client's health care record.
7, c. avoid premature judgments about the client.
8. a. arrive at conclusions about the client's health.
9. d. check for the presence of defining characteristics.
10. b. rapid advances in biomedical knowledge and technology.

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